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Text:Hasten, O sinner, to be wise
Author:Thomas Scott
Tune:HAMBURG
Composer:Lowell Mason

370. Hasten, O sinner, to be wise

1 Hasten, O sinner, to be wise,
And stay not for the morrow's sun:
The longer wisdom you despise,
The harder is she to be won.

2 Oh, hasten mercy to implore,
And stay not for the morrow's sun,
For fear thy season should be o'er
Before this evening's course be run.

3 Hasten, O sinner, to return,
And stay not for the morrow's sun,
For fear thy lamp should fail to burn
Before the needful work is done.

4 Hasten, O sinner, to be blest,
And stay not for the morrow's sun;
For fear the curse should thee arrest
Before the morrow is begun.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Hasten, O sinner, to be wise
Author: Thomas Scott (1773)
Language: English
Publication Date: 1899
Topic: Accepted Time; Gospel Call; Delay: Danger of (3 more...)
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: HAMBURG
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: L. M.
Notes: Public Domain.



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